The Washington critic., 1887-11-02
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The American Woman Suffrage Assoeis-
tion continued its deliberations Ia Philadel-
pbia yesterday.
The Consolidated Cattle Growers Asso
cistion continued It's session at Kansas
City, Mo, yesterday.
Julius Dexter was yesterday elected presi.
dent Of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day.
ion Railroad Company.
The winning horses at Nashville, Tenn,
yesterday were Alamo, Fellow Brock,
GleBfsher and Vlce-Regent.
Delaware voted yesterday on the question
OF calling constitutional convention. The
call was defeated for want of u sufficient
majority.
Hon. George Reidneld died at his home,
near Elkhart, Ind, Monday, aged 91 years,
He had been Secretary Of State and held
other Offices.
Two hundred and fifty union job printers,
over half the whole number in the city,
went on strike In Chicago yesterday for a
nine'hour law.
The Spanish steamer Panama, from New
York, which was ashore on the Florida
coast, has arrived at Havana, having
nOated Sunday afternoon. All on board are
we'll.
George Alexander, aged 81, house
painter, OF Wilmington, Del, was thrown
from q scaffold yesterday, and received IN.
juries from which he died ia less than three
hours.
There was meeting Of colored Republi.
cans In New York laet night. Colonel f.
ID. Grant sent a letter, which was read, In
which he denied ever having expressed any
animosity to colored cadets at West Point.
Berlin dispatches received IN New York
| yesterday state that the subscription to the
$2,500,060 Oregon Railway and Navigation
tu ttNt IN
the entire amount offered by the Deutsche
Bank Of Berlin being taken at 9si aud &C.
crued Interest, Berlin price.
The steamer Australia arrived at San
Francleco from Honolulu yesterday, but
brought little additional information re.
| gardiDg Hawaiian or Samoan affairs other
than the fact that Hon. John NJ. Kapena,
late Minister Of Finance in the Gibson
Cabinet of Hawaii, is dead. Among the
jackson, late Of the Hawaiian navy.
The schooner Pomeroy, from Chicago,
which arrived at Sturgeon Bay, Wis, yes
terday, rescued, about eight miles frsm
Sheboygan, Alfred Stone, believed to be the
only survivor Of the so people on the pro-
| peller Vernon, lost last Saturday. He had
been on the raft sixty hours when rescued.
Five other men were on the raft with him,
but they all perished.
phmcb We DIuyudu, OUe Ol tuG OlucSt
newspaper men In the West, and who has
been connected with the press OF Chicago
for over third Of a century, died Sunday.
MIR. Brayman was born In Buffalo, N. Y,
az years ago, and learned the printing trade.
He had occupied editorial positions on the
Buffalo Courier, the Commercial Adrertiser.
the Chicago Democrat and the Baptist Stan
ddrd.
The Lehigh aud wilkesbarre Coal Com
.t~ at, NJ. =
coal In South Wilkeebarre, Pa, yesterday,
nearly eleven hundred feet below the sur.
face, the deepest shaft In Pennsylvania.
The vein Is between eighteen and twenty
feet thick. This lucky find, for which the
company has spent years, aud nearly one
hundred thousand dollars, will net them
fully three million dollars.
Two deaths from fever under suspicious
circumstances occurred Monday In Sanford,
Fla. The Duval County Board Of Health
has declared rigid quarantine against
Sanford. Through passengers will not be
allowed to come to Jacksonville, but will
he transferred at the junction outside OF
the city limits 10 the roads leading north.
There were only four new cases OF yellow
fever at Tampa yesterday and two deaths.
Father Swemburgh, a Catholic priest, who
took the place Of Father Peterman, who
died last week, has also died.
Hon. VIM. NJ. Beach, an old-lIne Demo-
crat, and popularly known as the "War
Horse" Of the Rhode Island Democracy,
has been appointed to the bench OF the
Sixth District Court, In Providence, made
vacant by the death Of Judge James W.
Blackgood. Mr.. Beach is native of Clin-
ton County, New York, but bis younger
days were passed In Ohio. He studied and
practiced law in indianapolis, and was
member OF the Legislature Of Indiana In
1s5l-'52, and later was clerk Of the Supreme
Court OF that State. He settled in Provi.
dence In 1865, and ten years later was the
Democratlc candidate for Governor.